dib-run-parts command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

dib-run-parts: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dib-run-parts: command not found

Solutions to dib-run-parts: command not found

How To Fix dib-run-parts: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu dib-run-parts is provided by python3-dib-utils package.

python3-dib-utils is:

These tools were originally part of the diskimage-builder project, but they have uses outside of that project as well. Because disk space is at a premium in base cloud images, pulling in all of diskimage-builder and its dependencies just to use something like dib-run-parts is not desirable. This project allows consumers to use the tools while pulling in only one small package with few/no additional dependencies.

This package contains the Python 3.x module.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install python3-dib-utils

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install python3-dib-utils.

sudo apt -y install python3-dib-utils

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install python3-dib-utils

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix dib-run-parts command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.